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...Because images operate on an emotional level, no one can predict their effect - and that is scary. No one knows if the Pearl video will do more to rally the terrorists or us, whether seeing bodies falling from the towers will numb people or combat complacency. The Pearl video is the Zapruder film of terrorism, footage that will rightly carry a taboo and not many will want to see. But it would be hubris to decide that because I wish I had never seen it, you never should - that I can?t trust you to watch it for the right...
While many proposals circulated this year on how to best combat grade inflation, the Faculty unanimously voted to cap honors and to switch to the more common 4.0 grading scale...
Moynihan, a former four-term Democratic senator from New York who was a professor of government at Harvard, said the United States government needs to take active steps to combat terrorism...
Lowell came to office with a mandate to combat grade and honors inflation, increase the size of the Faculty and expand the University—a mandate strikingly similar to that given to University President Lawrence H. Summers in the last year...
...Faculty unanimously adopts a new 4.0 grading scale and restricts the proportion of honors awarded each year to 60 percent of the graduating class. The change goes into effect starting with the Class of 2004 and 2005, respectively. The change is part of an effort to combat grade and honors inflation...